Topic: What happened here? Lola vs. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

http://musicbrainz.org/recording/2f7621 … a5bf887665

Looks like The Kinks' Lola and some song named Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep got merged somehow?

2 (edited by bitmap 2012-01-03 01:56:26)

Re: What happened here? Lola vs. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

I asked on IRC and nikki managed to find this:
http://musicbrainz.org/edit/15901706
http://classic.musicbrainz.org/release/ … 235c2.html
http://classic.musicbrainz.org/release/ … c3795.html
(see track 7)

It's a pretty bad situation, given the long edit histories, and it's unfortunate that we can't split them easily or fix the MBID's. :( I'm going to try and fix as many of the releases as possible.

VA merges apparently don't show up in the associated recording artists' subscriptions, so they're hard to spot.

Edit: The new "Lola" recording is http://musicbrainz.org/recording/559e77 … a29f97a23f

Re: What happened here? Lola vs. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

I found another merge of 2 different songs here: http://musicbrainz.org/recording/7900ff … 252932c30e
(Heart of Glass - Blondie and Lost in France - Bonnie Tyler)...

Why are there no informations about the merge in editing history??

Re: What happened here? Lola vs. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

Some recordings were incorrectly merged by the server as a result of the migration to NGS, before which these entities did not exist.

This is a very bad situation, but unfortunately we just have to fix them manually now :( Other editors have noted quite a few other cases where such merges happened - possibly due to PUIDs being crosslinked between different recordings.